Portrait of the Artist: Inspiration from the past and the present

10:17 PM,
Feb. 13, 2014

Beth Haber

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Tell us how your art on view at RiverWinds Gallery was informed by the work of Giovanna Garzoni.

The core of the work in the show was informed by one of those "impossible conversations" across time that artists among the living can carry on with artists of the past whose work speaks to them. Giovanna Garzoni made beautifully realized small still lifes. She worked in Florence in the 17th century and was supported by the Medici - a rare circumstance for a woman of her time and place. One of the things that appeals to me most in her work is how she manages to balance a definite liveliness along with a sense ...